Wire-coupling.



PATENTED JULY 3o, 1907.v

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UNITv *1D STATES PATENT oratori.

WIRE-COUPLING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed May 14, 1907. Serial No, 373,618.

To all u'lmm it muy concern:

Be it known that I, PETER W. IIu'rcuENs, a citizen of the United States, residing at .\[odoc, in the county of Randolph and Slate of Indiana have invented a new and useful 'ire-Poupler, of which the following is a full and accurate exposition and specification, which when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. forming a part thereof. will be found sullciently clear and concise as to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention pertains to make and use the same with absolute exactitude.

My present invention relates to wire couplers or connectors, and more particularly to a device intended for coupling the overlapping ends of two wires. as, for instance, in building or repairing wire fencing.

The object of my invention, broadly stated. is tov provide a highly efficient coupling for wire-fence or the like which will consist of a minimum of mcchanical parts7 will be easy of installation, and which can he nmnufactured and sold at comparatively low price.

More specilically stated, my object is to provide a coupling for wires which may be employed for connecting the ends thereof securely and firmly; and further my object is to provide a wire connector which will he simple in construction, positive in action, neat and attractive in appr-arance, and in which the additional expense therefor will be practically m'l.

Other objects and particular advantages will appear from the following specification and drawings, and the points which are new will be correlated in the claims hereunto appended.

The preferred manner of the construction of my invention and that which in practice has been found the most practical, is illustrated in the. accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side eleva-tion of my invention complete and in operative position connecting the oppoaitely disposed terminals of two Wires. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the parts shown in Fig. 1. 'tud Fig. 3 is an end view of the same device shown in Vhe other views7 the Wires in this instance being renoved.

Similar indices denote like parts throughout the hree views of the drawings.

In order that my invention may be the more fully-y nderstood and its many advantages be fully appre iated, I will now take/.up the description thereof in :increte detail and I will describe thc various parts nd its intended operation as briefly and as com pactly i I may.

This invention consists of a single member composed "a body or shank 1. havinga slotted aperture 2 extend.. 1g centrally and longitudinally therethrough.

The numeral 3 denotes an arm integral with the body 1 and extending out from one end of the body at right angles thereto and located in alinement with the greater diamcter of the slot 2. as shown in Fig. 3. The mum-ml 4 denotes a round aperture disposed through 2 as shown. The numeral denotes a second arm also integral with the body and extending out. at right angles therefrom. parallel with the first named arm, and located in alinement with the longer diameter of the slot 2. and the numeral 4 denotes a round aperture disposed through the outer portion of the arm 5 and pan allel with the slot 2. The arms 3 and 5 are identical with each other but areoppositely disposed. that4 is they extend out in opposite directions, and they are also located on opposite ends of the body. The round apertures 4 and t are in alinementwith each other and with the slot 2. being so located that a line interseetingcentmlly the apertures 4 and 6 would pass centrally through the wider diameter of the slot 2. Formed in the ends of the device are shallow channc s 'i and S, the former connecting the slot 2 and the aperture 4, vand the latter connecting the slot 2 and the aperture 6, as shown in Fig. 3.

The letters A arid B designate each a portion of separate lengths of wire. The apertures 4 and G are only slightly larger than the said wires A or B, and the slot 2 is of a size such as to receive both the Wires A and B together.

The wircsA and B to be coupled are first caused to inserted in the slot 2. In order to couple the said wires 'with my device the free ends of the wires are inserted Afirst through the slot 2 from opposite directions, the protruding end of the wire B is then bent to form a hook and return portion is then inserted through the aperture 4; and in like manner the protruding end of the wire A is bent as the former and its return port-ion is jinserted through the aperture G, thereby forming a lock land completing the coupling of the two wires.

It is notably apparent that the shape of the device is substantially Z-shape, except that the central stem is at right-angles to the end portions. It should also be noticed that. the pull of the wires A and B, when under tension, would be to the right and to the left and that the two wires would remain in alinement with cach other regirdless of the tension.

While I have illustrated and described the best means now known to me for carrying out: the objects of vmy invention in a practical manner, I desire to have t, it understood that I do not restrict myself to the exact details of construction shown and described, but

ghold that such changes and variations therein as would v the outer portion of the arm 3 and parallel with the slot s overlap each other, each being straight in order tobe naturally suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic would clearly fall within the limits and scope of inl l l I tions thpronf in parallelism with tho grmtnr dinmvtr of said slot, each of said arms having' n laterally-chmod aperturt` [ormoni transversely and entirely thvxvthmngh in the same plant` with thc slot, ouch apertura being dvsignod to x'uceiire ue rm'orsvd tii'minzil of one 'of the wiius :ind hnving n cross-suction substantially half that of thi` slot.

In wstimony whereof I huw hereunto signed my name to this spvcilicatiun in the presence of two subscribing \\'it DSSPSP.

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Hollum W. RANDLE, R. E. nANDLB. 

